Windows explorer has encountered a problem and must shutdown

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    Win XP home. After extracting multimedia files to a folder when I try to open the folder I get the message Windows explorer has encountered a problem and must shutdown. I have 3 button options: Debug, Send Error Report, Don't send. All selections have the same final result. Explorer shutsdown.
     
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    try a system restore back to a good date or reload windows ontop of self to do a repair
     
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    Thank you. I did not have to get that drastic. It was only happenning on 2 folders. When the error message popped up I drug it out of the way deleted one file at a time then clicked the do not send button. Waited for windows explorer to restart and tried the folder again. I repeated this until the corrupt file(s) was deleted. Then restored the good files.
     
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    teach & learn
     
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    i have that problem to... wenever i try to access some files it says: windows explorer has encountered an error and has to close. even if i copy the folders and delete the old ones it still crashes...
    any ideas?
     

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